Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An animal whose skin is covered with fur, especially fur that is commercially valuable.
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- noun An animal that is hunted or farmed for its
fur
Etymologies
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Examples
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For every wild furbearer killed, many more non-targeted wild and domestic animals are killed and discarded, in violation of hunting and outdoors ethics.
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Yes | No | Report from ejunk wrote 4 weeks 5 days ago and the friggin 'DNR furbearer resource specialist said "it's rare, to say the least." am I the only one who would have stopped to be amazed by this?
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Yes | No | Report from ejunk wrote 4 weeks 5 days ago and the friggin 'DNR furbearer resource specialist said "it's rare, to say the least." am I the only one who would have stopped to be amazed by this?
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If it tests positive, and preliminary indications are that it will, this would be just the fourth mountain lion identified by the DNR in the state of Iowa in the past nine years, the first in the past five years and the first female, said Ron Andrews, a DNR furbearer resource specialist based in Clear Lake.
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If it tests positive, and preliminary indications are that it will, this would be just the fourth mountain lion identified by the DNR in the state of Iowa in the past nine years, the first in the past five years and the first female, said Ron Andrews, a DNR furbearer resource specialist based in Clear Lake.
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I told him when furbearer season started whatever we caught we'd sell to the furbuyer and the proceeds would go into his savings account.
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So far, it's just the wanderers, said Jeff Beringer, Department of Conservation furbearer resource biologist, who was part of the autopsy team.
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So far, it's just the wanderers, said Jeff Beringer, Department of Conservation furbearer resource biologist, who was part of the autopsy team.
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So far, it's just the wanderers, said Jeff Beringer, Department of Conservation furbearer resource biologist, who was part of the autopsy team.
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So far, it's just the wanderers, said Jeff Beringer, Department of Conservation furbearer resource biologist, who was part of the autopsy team.
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